SSIS Documentation suggestions on Microsoft Connect
For SSIS developers, the need for proper documentation is crucial. However, the built-in object for documentation, the annotation, is difficult...
2009-08-15
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Blog Posts
A Couple of Invoke-SQLCMD Issues
In working on a PowerShell script to load data into SQL Server, I decided to use the Invoke-SQLCMD cmdlet included...
2009-08-14
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Book Review: The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam ($15 at Amazon) was really the first reading I...
2009-08-14
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Evil Code
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A couple
of years ago, I wrote the Simple-Talk Prettifier. This is really no more than a stored
procedure that...
2009-08-14
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Kevin Kline Joins the SQLSaturday Advisory Council
The official announcement was just posted, Kevin Kline is the first member of the Advisory Council. As I mentioned on...
2009-08-14
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The Benefits of a Flexible Schedule
Both my wife and I work from home, and we've done it for years. I've been working full time for...
2009-08-14
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"Just smile and wave, boys. Smile and wave."
If you're not familiar with the reference, it comes from the movie Madagascar and the subsequent sequel and TV series...
2009-08-13
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Getting Into The Biz, Part 2
In a previous blog post, I began writing about how one might start a career as a database professional, and...
2009-08-13
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Microsoft at the PASS Summit
One of the reasons that I think the PASS Summit fits well in Seattle is the support that they get...
2009-08-13
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SQL Server Standard Writing Guidelines
Well, actually, these are the guidelines for submitting anything to SQLPASS, but it includes the guidelines for SQL Server Standard....
2009-08-13
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Blogs
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
GenAI vs Dashboards: Not the Same (And Never Will Be)
By James Serra
There’s a question I’ve been hearing more and more lately, especially as Copilot, Fabric,...
Forums
Warning: Could not open global shared memory to communicate with performance DLL
Hi everyone I am getting below warning when I run SSIS: Warning: 0x80049304 at...
Let's Talk Community Events!
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that one limitation in replication
Hi as shown below a replication target requires a primary key. if we want...
Question of the Day
Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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